IP Library Granted Patent US 11,887,304
Granted Patent B2
US 11,887,304 · App. 17/655,524 · Granted Jan 30, 2024

Systems and methods to process electronic images to produce a tissue map visualization

Inventors: Jason Locke (Westport, CT); Jillian Sue (New York, NY); Christopher Kanan (Pittsford, NY); Sese Ih (Brooklyn, NY)
Assignee: Paige.AI, Inc.
G06T7/0012G06N20/00G06T3/40G06T11/60G16H10/40G16H30/40G16H70/60G06T2207/20081G06T2207/30024
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Patent No.
US 11,887,304
App. No.
17/655,524
Granted
Jan 30, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for analyzing an image of a slide corresponding to a specimen, the method including receiving at least one digitized image of a pathology specimen; determining, using the digitized image at an artificial intelligence (AI) system, at least one salient feature, the at least one salient comprising a biomarker, cancer, cancer grade, parasite, toxicity, inflammation, and/or cancer sub-type; determining, at the AI system, a salient region overlay for the digitized image, wherein the AI system indicates a value for each pixel; and suppressing, based on the value for each pixel, one or more non-salient regions of the digitized image.

Claims (44)

1. A computer-implemented method for analyzing an image of a slide corresponding to a pathology specimen, the method comprising:

determining, using an artificial intelligence (AI) system, a salient region overlay for at least one digitized image of the pathology specimen;

representing the salient region overlay by a set of super-pixels associated with a score;

suppressing, based on a diagnostic value for each pixel, one or more non-salient regions of the at least one digitized image; and

normalizing the salient region overlay to obtain a variable, the salient region overlay represented by a binary segmentation of the at least one digitized image indicating if each pixel has a salient feature present.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising converting the salient region overlay into a tissue map.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:

detecting the salient feature using the Al system on the at least one digitized image to produce a tissue visualization.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one digitized image comprises related case information, patient information and information from a clinical system.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising alerting a user when the salient region overlay is available.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising resizing the salient region overlay to a same size as the at least one digitized image.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:

indicating, by the Al system, a diagnostic value for each pixel.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising representing the salient region overlay by a semantic segmentation of the at least one digitized image indicating a score or probability for each pixel.

9. A system for analyzing an image of a slide corresponding to a pathology specimen, the system comprising:

at least one memory storing instructions; and

at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising:

determining, using an artificial intelligence (AI) system, a salient region overlay for at least one digitized image of the pathology specimen;

representing the salient region overlay by a set of super-pixels associated with a score;

suppressing, based on a diagnostic value for each pixel, one or more non-salient regions of the at least one digitized image; and

normalizing the salient region overlay to obtain a variable, the salient region overlay represented by a binary segmentation of the at least one digitized image indicating if each pixel has a salient feature present.

10. The system of claim 9 , the operations further comprising:

converting the salient region overlay into a tissue map.

11. The system of claim 9 , the operations further comprising:

detecting the salient feature using machine learning on the at least one digitized image to produce a tissue visualization.

12. The system of claim 9 , the operations further comprising developing a pipeline to archive prospective patient data.

13. The system of claim 9 , the operations further comprising representing the salient region overlay by a semantic segmentation of the at least one digitized image indicating a score or probability for each pixel.

14. A computer-implemented method for analyzing an image of a slide corresponding to a pathology specimen, the method comprising:

determining, using an artificial intelligence (AI) system, a salient region overlay for at least one digitized image of the pathology specimen;

suppressing, based on a diagnostic value for each pixel, one or more non-salient regions of the at least one digitized image;

normalizing the salient region overlay to obtain a variable, the salient region overlay represented by a binary segmentation of the at least one digitized image indicating if each pixel has a salient feature present; and

representing the salient region overlay by a semantic segmentation of the at least one digitized image indicating a score or probability for each pixel.

15. The computer-implemented method of of claim 14 , further comprising converting the salient region overlay into a tissue map.

16. The computer-implemented method of of claim 14 , further comprising: detecting the salient feature using the AI system on the at least one digitized image to produce a tissue visualization.

17. The computer-implemented method of of claim 14 , further comprising: resizing the salient region overlay to a same size as the at least one digitized image.

18. The computer-implemented method of of claim 14 , further comprising: indicating, by the AI system, a diagnostic value for each pixel.

19. A system for analyzing an image of a slide corresponding to a pathology specimen, the system comprising:

at least one memory storing instructions; and

at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising:

determining, using an artificial intelligence (AI) system, a salient region overlay for at least one digitized image of the pathology specimen;

suppressing, based on a diagnostic value for each pixel, one or more non-salient regions of the at least one digitized image;

normalizing the salient region overlay to obtain a variable, the salient region overlay represented by a binary segmentation of the at least one digitized image indicating if each pixel has a salient feature present; and

representing the salient region overlay by a semantic segmentation of the at least one digitized image indicating a score or probability for each pixel.

20. The system of claim 19 , further comprising representing the salient region overlay by a set of super-pixels associated with a score or a probability for the salient feature being present or absent.

Assignments (4)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded May 14, 2026
From: ARES CAPITAL CORPORATION, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
To: PAIGE.AI, INC.
Reel/Frame 075589/0752 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Oct 21, 2025
From: PAIGE.AI, INC.
To: ARES CAPITAL CORPORATION, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 073216/0876 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE LAST NAME OF 3RD ASSIGNOR PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 059373 FRAME: 0893. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Sep 12, 2023
From: LOCKE, JASON; SUE, JILLIAN; KANAN, CHRISTOPHER; IH, SESE
To: PAIGE.AI, INC.
Reel/Frame 064871/0478 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 23, 2022
From: LOCKE, JASON; SUE, JILLIAN; KANNAN, CHRISTOPHER; IH, SESE
To: PAIGE.AI, INC.
Reel/Frame 059373/0893 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17350328 · Jun 17, 2021
Provisional Application 63041778 · Jun 19, 2020
Related Publication 20220207735A1 · Jun 30, 2022